Le 16 août 07 à 16:56, Yen-Ju Chen a écrit : > On 8/16/07, Quentin Mathé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Le 13 août 07 à 13:05, David Chisnall a écrit : >> >> At last FOSDEM, I showed to Jesse various Newton-like Intelligent >> Assistant mockups I did. >> Basically you type something and depending what you typed, the >> Assistant offers various related actions for your text input. If you >> type an application name, it will offer to launch it as default >> action. It's "intelligent" because it tries to infer what you may >> want to do. Actions vary if you type URL, mail address, people name, >> application name, unix command, phone number. In a more general way, >> the actions vary with the type of object inferred for the typed text. >> As a side-effect, this means you can drop an image in the input area >> and have image-related actions listed in the Action bar. So it's also >> a sort of rudimentary CLI-like interface oriented towards everyday >> users. >> Some actions are available in most cases like Search, Dictionary or >> Spelling. >> An API would offer the possibility to add new actions. > > It sounds to me like QuickSilver or Bulter on Mac. > The concept is that after a keybord short-cut, > a window shows up and users can type. > Then depending on what they type, actions get fired.
Right, it's quite close to QuickSilver. However I think such Assistant should stay simpler than QuickSilver and could be benefit from better integration with the rest of Étoilé. > While I like this idea, I think the core of this application is > an engine which it can process natural laugnage, > ex. it can parse a string into a phone number or address, > or an application name. > I wonder whether it can be easily done ? Well, Apple came up with Apple Data Detectors long time ago (around 1996 or so), but they have been lost in the transition to Mac OS X. Newton has something even more evolved for its intelligent assistant. But that doesn't mean at all whether it's easy to code or not ;-) However there is this discontinued open source Cocoa project which does precisely that kind of text analysis: <http://www.simson.net/ref/ sbook5/> Quentin. -- Quentin Mathé [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
